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Re: Can't boot
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:44 am
by Decemberdoom
There must be SOME partitions, otherwise nothing would be able to install at all. Could you please post a screenshot of your partition table (boot up with the Live CD, then go to Menu>Administration>Partition Editor)
Also, a copy of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file would probably help us quite a bit.
Re: Can't boot
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:18 pm
by distoaddict
That looks to me that it SHOULD boot. perhaps it is a grub problem.
we may be able to boot up in another way. i advise obtaining supergrub disk and gujin and trying them.
it might also be an idea to post your /etc/fstab
Re: Can't boot
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:34 pm
by distoaddict
re your fstab.
i woud edit it from what you have to this.
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
i had problems booting with uuids with supergrub disk
Re: Can't boot
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:56 pm
by Decemberdoom
Yea, everything DOES look in order with the configuration files...
My best guess is that something happened with the GRUB installation. I second the opinion of trying out Super Grub Disk. Try to see if you can boot into your Mint install from it, if so, that means GRUB just needs to be fixed. If you manage to boot into Mint with SGD, open up a terminal and type the following commands.
(From what I gather, Linux is installed on the first partition of your first hard disk)
Now, take out the Super Grub Disk and reboot, hopefully everything will be well.